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Friday, December 18, 2009

Fat Lips, Fat Heads

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In a post we did a week or so ago I mentioned the injustice of court martialing three navy SEALs who were accused of punching a terrorist an...

An Exact Science

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Since the filched emails from East Anglia were released a month ago we've come to learn a lot about the scientific method, at least as i...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Evolutionary Ethics (Part II)

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This post continues our discussion of Marc Hauser's essay Biology (Not Religion) Equals Morality in which he attempts to argue that m...

Debunking the Shroud

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I don't know what to make of the Shroud of Turin, the famous burial cloth that bears the scientifically inexplicable imprint of a man wh...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Evolutionary Ethics (Part I)

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The idea that our moral sense is a product of human evolution has been around ever since Darwin, but in all those years it has never managed...

Taxes

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Jason sends along a cartoon that's both depressing and funny: There's more than a bit of truth to this. President Obama insis...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Safe Schools Czar

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Jim Hoft has been documenting the career of Kevin Jennings, President Obama's Safe Schools czar, and has the latest here . In 2000 Mr. J...

More Complex Than Expected

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Telic Thoughts directs us to an article which reports on a study that assesses how complex the simplest functional cell would have to be. ...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Heading for Default

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This article that Bill passes along will fill you with hope for change. Here's the nut of it: It's one of those numbers that...

The Hockey Stick

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Doc at The Autopsy has put together an interesting video that puts the global warming "hockey stick" into perspective. The "...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Stretching the Truth

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Planned Parenthood continues to embarrass itself. This undercover video filmed in a Wisconsin PP clinic shows a counselor and doctor provid...

Buyer's Remorse

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According to Ben Smith at Politico.com things are President Obama's popularity is in serious decline. For example: ...just 50% of v...
Friday, December 11, 2009

Microscopic Beauty

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Here are some beautiful pictures of living things so tiny that most of us never see them. Here's one of my favorites. It's a un...

This Year's Daniel

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Stephen Meyer has been awarded World magazine's "Daniel" award for 2009, presented to the man or woman who withstands intens...

Flincher

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Bill Dembski at Uncommon Descent introduces the brief video clip below with these words: William Lane Craig is not only one of the world...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Who's to Say?

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Richard Weikert, the historian who wrote the excellent study ( From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany )...

Imploding Justice

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You might recall the voter intimidation carried out by a group called the New Black Panthers at a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Ethical Question of the Day

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Listen to this 911 call and discuss with your friends (or yourself if you have no friends) whether this woman, who exhibits a calm and coura...

Clarification

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Byron writes to clarify that contrary to the impression our post on the Manhattan Declaration may have given, Ron Sider did sign it and doe...

Faith Commitments

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In his very fine book on the Argument from Reason for God's existence ( C.S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea ), Victor Reppert invites us to ...